Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => General Gardening => Topic started by: New shoot on December 31, 2017, 18:52
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I love the early spring flowers almost better than anything and my beady eye has sought out snowdrops and other bulbs pushing their way up. I also have hellebore buds arching up out of the earth and euphorbia sporting those little top knots on their stems that are the forerunner to colourful bracts.
My best find today however was spring cyclamen in flower :D Too dark for a piccy when I spotted them, but I shall try for one tomorrow.
Have you got any flowers yet?
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We have the odd one or two primroses smiling at us from corners of the garden, and I know it isn't strictly a spring flower, but the winter flowering honeysuckle shrub is blooming away to its heart's content, and smells lovely.
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I have two snowdrops in flower
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Roll on spring and more flowers. I spotted the first crocus bud today as well :D
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I spotted 1 of the hellebores flower buds today, then I removed 2 potted canna lilies from on top of the snowdrop patch...I’m sure they’ll grow & flower much better without them on top😢. Not sure that the cannas will survive being out in the frost & snow though.
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The selection this morning :
A lone crocus - these have naturalised everywhere and I can see them emerging, so hopefully the whole bed will be a haze of pretty purple soon :D
Daffs that have wandered through the fence from next door
A hellebore bud full of promise :D
Snowdrops in full bud now
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Hellebores in bud, snowdrops out and Christmas Box now too
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First few snowdrops seem to have appeared in the last day or so, and are just turning up in the churchyard behind us as well.
We've also had a periwinkle going throughout the winter too...
Hellebores will be next, and big white snowdrop types but a foot tall (can't remember what they are)!
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Snowflakes perhaps, Growster?
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Snowflakes perhaps, Growster?
Yup, they're the ones Sunny, thank you!
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The hellebores are flowering and I found the first primrose out today :D
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Finally went down the garden the other day & found the Snowdrops were just beginning to flower,then a hellebore was open.
Today in the churchyard there were a few snowdrops too, then on the way Home I noticed a Ceanothus that hangs over a garden wall ,just beginning to show the blue of some of its flowers
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It's a bit sad how much of a kick I get out of seeing the first spring flowers!
My potted snowdrops are gradually starting to wake up but the neighbours' garden, which seemingly isn't tended at all, has an enormous patch. I also walk past one house that has loads of lovely crocuses which is the only place round here I've seen them, I wonder why that is...
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My 'wild' crocus are budding up beautifully now, plus the hellebores and spring cyclamen are going great guns.
I also walk past one house that has loads of lovely crocuses which is the only place round here I've seen them, I wonder why that is...
No idea, but mine arrived for free and have spread everywhere without any intervention from me. If you want a few, I can easily send you some once the leaves have died down. Drop me a pm with your address. They are tiny corms, but they spread like mad and self seed as well (you have been warned) :lol:
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I spied some crocus in the park today on our walk into Hinckley,a real treat, good job they didn’t mind the snow lol
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I've got shoots where the Bluebells (Spanish and native) are, I've got some shoots where the Snowdrops are, I've got Tulip shoots and even shoots where the Alliums are - but none where the Daffs should be :ohmy: and not a single flower to be seen ::)
The earliest bulbs seem a bit late here :wacko: but the Hellebores are flowering well since I split them apart :D
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I also walk past one house that has loads of lovely crocuses which is the only place round here I've seen them, I wonder why that is...
No idea, but mine arrived for free and have spread everywhere without any intervention from me. If you want a few, I can easily send you some once the leaves have died down. Drop me a pm with your address. They are tiny corms, but they spread like mad and self seed as well (you have been warned) :lol:
Thank you! However, my home garden is just a tiny concrete yard with a few containers and, based on your description, I would be a bit worried about introducing them to the plot! :lol:
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based on your description, I would be a bit worried about introducing them to the plot! :lol:
Hmmmmm that may be a wise move. They do have world domination tendencies and that would not make you particularly popular with your fellow plot holders :lol:
They cause no harm in my borders at home and if I dig corms up while planting stuff, they get lobbed back in the top of the hole to take their chances.
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Just spotted the first 'Soldiers and Sailors' today...
And I've pruned the wistaria which has taken five hours, and up a ladder too, so please be gentle with me!